Swedish excavations at Sinda

The village of Sinda is in the district of Famagusta, in northern Cyprus, about 20 km from Nicosia. Close to the village is a necropolis with chamber tombs dated to the Late Bronze Age, as well as tombs from Hellenistic and Roman times. There are also the remains of a Bronze Age settlement in the vicinity. In 1947, Arne Furumark, Professor of Classical Antiquity at Uppsala University, conducted an initial investigation, which led him to decide that further archaeological fieldwork at the site could be very interesting. An excavation directed by Furumark began in December 1947 and was followed by a second field season in the spring of 1948. In 1949, after permission had been granted by the Cypriot authorities, many of the finds were brought to Sweden.

Many of the objects from the collection will be displayed in the Gustavianum, when the university museum reopens after the ongoing renovation. Parts of the collection are also available to researchers and students at The historical collections at EBC, Center for Evolutionary Biology.